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Senate reaches deal on saving 'Cash for Clunkers' program

The Senate reached a deal on saving the dwindling "cash for clunkers" program, agreeing to vote on a plan that would add $2 billion to the popular rebate program.

FOX News

Soldier who refused deployment sentenced to 1 month in jail

A Fort Hood soldier who refused to deploy to Afghanistan over his beliefs that the war violates international law was sentenced to a month in jail.

Dubuque Telegraph Herald

History, politics shape debate with Senate poised to confirm first Hispanic justice

Sonia Sotomayor is poised to make history as the Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice despite staunch opposition from Republicans, a pending victory Democrats believe will pay off politically.

Baltimore Sun

Republican opposition to Sotomayor widens gulf over high court

Bloomberg

Health care debate turns rancorous

August is do-or-die month for both President Barack Obama and his hopes of overhauling U.S. health care, and the battle will be fought not in Washington, but across the country.

Reuters

Health debate produces angry protests, retorts

CQ Politics

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The idiot’s guide to health care reform

New York Magazine

'Recess rallies' to contest health care reform

MSNBC

Rescue effort could open new role for former President Bill Clinton

Two journalists and former President Bill Clinton descended from an airplane, bringing a close to a dramatic story and opening a new chapter in another saga.

Baltimore Sun

North Korea wanted only Bill Clinton for mission to free women

Bloomberg

Chavez ups pressure on Colombia

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced trade measures against Colombia, amid a growing diplomatic row between the two nations.

BBC

Clinton to address Somalia conflict

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to meet with Somalia's president to discuss how to stabilize the war-torn country battling with Islamist fighters.

Al Jazeera

NATION

Felicia's approach has residents on alert

From the Big Island to Kauai, residents are beginning to buy emergency items as Hurricane Felicia strengthens and moves closer to the Hawaiian Islands.

Star Bulletin

Jefferson convicted in freezer cash case

Former Rep. William Jefferson was convicted on 11 of 16 criminal counts filed against him — including charges that accepted bribes and engaged in money laundering while serving in Congress.

Politico

Bill Jefferson found guilty of bribery

MSNBC

After 34 years, Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme to be released

The president she tried to assassinate has been dead for nearly three years. However, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is about to get her first taste of real freedom in more than three decades.

CNN

POLITICS

US to spend $2.4 billion to boost use of electric vehicles

President Barack Obama said the federal government will spend $2.4 billion in stimulus money to build batteries and get the first batch of thousands of U.S.-made electric vehicles onto the roads.

McClatchy Newspapers

Obama back in Ind. with message and aid

New York Times

Government insurance would allow coverage for abortion

Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions.

San Francisco Chronicle

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

New Facebook application helps you keep tabs on your biggest 'fans'

Facebook stalking has long been a topic of water-cooler discussion. Now there's a way to find out exactly who your biggest fan on Facebook really is: Stalker Check.

NY Daily News

Geckos' amazing grip triggered by gravity

Scientists at the University of Calgary and Clemson University have discovered that geckos use microscopic, hair-like filaments to attach to surfaces.

ScienceDaily

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

'On the Waterfront' writer Budd Schulberg dies at age 95

He won an Oscar for the script that spawned the oft-repeated line "I coulda been a contender," but was shunned for informing on his peers to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Guardian

Surf Noir: Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice'

Slot "Inherent Vice" in with "The Crying of Lot 49" and "Vineland" — the other Pynchon novels in which unsettling levels of marijuana are inhaled, and where the counterculture still has a dim chance.

Village Voice

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Thomas Pynchon's latest, 'Inherent Vice,' headed to the big screen?

The Playlist

EDUCATION

'Obama effect' at school: Black parents volunteer, expect more

A new survey suggests President Obama's victory last November had a positive effect not just on the academic expectations of black Americans — it may have raised parents' interests in volunteerism.

USA TODAY

Indiana autoworkers go back to school

The roll call in classes at Ivy Tech Community College in Kokomo, Ind., is longer due to the economic troubles.

NPR

HEALTH

County hospitals, clinics push smokers farther away

Beginning this fall, smoking will no longer be allowed outside any of Cook County's hospitals or clinics, making the county's health system the largest in the Chicago area to go completely smoke-free.

Chicago Sun-Times

Psychologists issue repudiation of gay-to-straight therapy

The American Psychological Association declared that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or treatment.

San Jose Mercury News

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GOOD NEWS

A freshman at 45, he hopes 'to inspire'

Going back to school is not easy at any age, but 45-year-old Dartmouth freshman Don Rains is up for the challenge.

USA TODAY

UPenn charitable giving tops target

In keeping with national trends, giving to the University of Pennsylvania was down over fiscal 2008's record, but officials expected that and were upbeat that the school nonetheless exceeded its target.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Change of guard in Green Zone as Iraqis take the reins

Baghdad's storied Green Zone, for six years a bunkered refuge for Westerners in this beleaguered capital, is America's turf no more.

MSNBC

As Ahmadinejad Is sworn in for 2nd term, deep fissures are laid bare

With his adversaries boycotting the ceremony and a vast deployment of police officers standing guard outside, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn into office for a second term as president.

New York Times

Ahmadinejad inaugurated in Iran

YouTube

Blast hits Afghan wedding convoy, 21 dead including women, kids

A roadside bomb hit a wedding party on its way to a ceremony in southern Afghanistan, killing 21 people including women and children, Afghan officials said.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Jobless claims dropped sharply

The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits fell sharply, a government report showed, boosting views that the labor market and the economy were stabilizing.

Reuters

Homebuilders eliminate frills as 1st-time buyers drive sales

When Lucas Miller bought his first property, he decided it was no time to splurge, opting for laminate rather than granite kitchen countertops in his two-bedroom Fishers, Ind., townhouse.

Bloomberg

Bloom: Chrysler won't become public company next year

President Barack Obama's top auto advisor said he believes Chrysler Group LLC won't become a public company before 2011.

Detroit News

SPORTS

Yankees confident it will be different

When the Yankees and Red Sox renew their rivalry at Yankee Stadium, one stat rises above all. That would be 0-8. As in eight games, eight losses against Boston this season.

New York Post

Arena Football League near folding

The league suspended operations for the 2009 season, but hoped to resume play in 2010. It had an outline for a restructuring process, but the plan has apparently failed to save the league.

Philadelphia Inquirer

ENVIRONMENT

Court rules Bush-era forest road-building and logging illegal

The Bush administration acted illegally when it opened millions of acres of U.S. national forests to road-building and logging, a federal appeals court ruled.

Reuters

India's 'drought-resistant rice'

A new variety of rice being tested in eastern India has the potential to change the face of Indian agriculture.

BBC

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Swiss want to reverse prayers, ask God to stop glacier's shrinking

Villagers from deeply Roman Catholic south Switzerland have for centuries offered a sacred vow to God to protect them from the advancing ice mass of the Great Aletsch glacier.

USA TODAY

Faith groups more likely to attract volunteers, report says

A recent survey indicates that faith-based organizations attract more volunteers than any other type of organization.

Beliefnet

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